An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Name: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Author: William Godwin

by William Godwin

Philosophical treatise arguing for rational anarchism and the perfectibility of society

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William Godwin

Godwin's Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism, arguing that rational individuals need no government. He was Mary Wollstonecraft's husband and Mary Shelley's father, making him the center of one of England's most remarkable literary families.

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